More Camelia ads:
1920s (Germany), 1930s
(Germany), 1940/42 (Germany, with underpants made
from sugar sacks, 1945/46), 1952 (Australia),
1970s (France), 1990
(Germany) - Underpants directory
Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made
for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and articles about menstruation
- videos
See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1932),
Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably identical to the American edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in
the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
 
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Camelia disposable menstrual napkin, cardboard ad from a former drugstore
in Saxony, Germany, 1936-37
This beautiful ad consists of two pieces: a cardboard
background and another piece of cut-out cardboard
- the ladies, box and information at the bottom - that casts a real shadow
on the landscape. It's 700 x 950 x 6 millimeters (roughly 2'4" x 3'1"
x 1/4"). German drugstore windows today are still often riveting.
Hiking - wandern in German - has always been popular in Germany,
at least in the last 100 years.
I spent most Saturdays from 1974 to 1984 hiking in the hills around
Heidelberg, walking paths marked with stones sometimes chiseled with dates
from the 1700s. We could
hear cuckoos in the silence - they
sounded just like the clocks!
Just a half hour from the oldest university in today's Germany we could
cross a river the Romans sailed and amble through the unattended, wrecked
rooms of a medieval monastery that perched on top of a hill a short walk
from an amphitheater that enclosed band concerts by the Nazis.
Down the river within an hour's walk loomed castle after castle, guarding
the approaches from forgotten invaders or making them pay tribute. I once compiled 1500 note cards on the construction of
German castles with the idea of making a booklet a Wandererin could
slip into her back pocket. It would enable her to roughly date any
ruin and figure out what the features were. (But after 2 years I lost confidence
and tossed the cards.)
Most of Germany's 15,000 or so castles are deserted and half rubble.
You can even buy many of them if you fix them up.
But, wonder of wonders, I've wandered from menstruation!
I gleaned the picture and information from the catalog "Menstruation:
Monatshygiene im Wandel von 1900 bis heute," Text und Katalog: Sabine
Zinn-Thomas und Walter Stolle. Eine Ausstellung des Hessischen Landesmuseums
Darmstadt in der Außenstelle Lorsch, 26.11.1998 bis 31.7.1999. My
translation: "Menstruation: Changing menstrual hygiene [in Germany,
mostly] from 1900 to today [1998]." Text and catalog: Sabine Zinn-Thomas
and Walter Stolle. An exhibition of the Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt,
in the branch at Lorsch, from November 26, 1998 to July 31, 1999.
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I translate the text as: "A [really
'The,' but that doesn't sound right in English] woman
doesn't need to hold back! A woman who wants to keep healthy and youthful
needs movement! She takes care also that she's not hindered for c. 60 days
a year because she knows the advantages of Camelia. Camelia, the ideal reform
menstrual pad." "Reform" in Germany means something
that's improved through careful thought; the word decorates many stores
and product descriptions in Germany, even today. Camelia is a Reform product
because it's disposable, not like the old-fashioned
German washable pad.
Many drugstores in Germany still show ads in large windows; the stores
in my area of the U.S.A. seem to have abandoned window advertising. Maybe
it's because people seldom walk anymore - they drive.
See a close-up of the box and woman in the
picture on the box - and read her story.
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More Camelia ads:
1920s (Germany), 1930s
(Germany), 1940/42 (Germany, with underpants made
from sugar sacks, 1945/46), 1952 (Australia),
1970s (France), 1990
(Germany) - Underpants directory
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